Experience soulful, Latin-inspired sounds with Puerto Nuevo tastes and sips at Ortega’s in Hillcrest
Eat your heart out. Ortega’s Mexican Bistro offers up a Puerto Nuevo-style lobster breakfast that will put any hearty American breakfast to shame.
Readers of Gay San Diego have named Ortega's Mexican Bistro a 2013 gold recipient for "Best Mexican Cuisine" and "Best Happy Hour".
LocalEats.com has named Ortega's Mexican Bistro a 2013 award winner for "Best Mexican in San Diego" and "Top 100 Restaurant in San Diego".
Besides its whole lobster dish, Ortega's serves a wickedly good tableside quacamole Jennifer Croshaw, SignOnSanDiego.com Staff Writer
With numerous awards to its credit, Ortega's is consistently rated one of the best restaurants in San Diego County, including a "Best of the Best" award from San Diego Magazine.
The Food is Brilliant and Fantastic... Everything was delicious! The Flan was AMAZING. Gordon Ramsay, Celebrity Chef
Californians have long flocked to Puerto Nuevo, the “lobster village” south of San Diego in Baja California, so when a member of the family that operates several Puerto Nuevo restaurants opened Ortega’s, it became an instant sensation…
— Fodor’s Travel
ORTEGA'S, A MEXICAN BISTRO, the Hillcrest rice 'n' beanery co-owned by a member of the family that built Puerto Nuevo into Baja's celebrated "lobster village," has regained its status as best upscale Mexican house (good mom 'n' poppers abound) thanks to new chef Liliaana Naverette. She pinpoints flavors like she's been cooking all her life — which she pretty much has — and isn't afraid to season south-of-the-border style, so that the chile-sharpened shrimp ceviche makes norteno mouths beg — for more. Tortilla soup can be dazzling when made right, as it so rarely is in this town, and Navarette's sparkles like an Aztec diadem. With Puerto Nuevo made a little distant by over-the-border uncertainties, it's good to have this one in our back yard...
— DISH by David Nelson, San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine
You don’t have to cross the border to savor the authentic flavors of Mexico. From mimosas made with freshly squeezed orange juice and champagne to handmade flour tortillas, Ortega’s offers diners high quality, fresh ingredients at affordable prices...
— Susan Russo, San Diego Gay & Lesbian News (SDGLN)
Starting with five generations of experience and a gracious, warm, attentive waitstaff, Ortega's Mexican Bistro has been serving award-winning, Baja-inspired cuisine to an appreciative audience since day one.
— San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine